Hugh at gapingvoid points out a new book by tech writer Ben Hammersley called Hacking Gmail. It’s about neat things to do with Google’s e-mail service, like using it as a backup drive. Peter shares words of wisdom in the comments: since many of the hacks are against Google’s terms of service, if you already [...]
I admit that I appreciate Google and Gmail’s humor and sometimes even find myself laughing at it. Have you seen Gmail’s pun:
"This holiday season,
we hope yule log-in to Gmail."
*j groans, then laughs
Many of us are receiving a German lesson because of the flood of German spam e-mails. The Yahoo! account using their built-in spam filter received about 100. The other one with no spam filter received nothing. One of my work accounts received more than 650 of them over the weekend and continues to see about [...]
After discovering he’s having a difficult time keeping up with his e-mail, Steven Cohen of Library Stuff publishes his contact information and suggests people use alternative methods of contacting him, like telephone, instant messaging, and Skype.
I’ll be curious to know how well encouraging others to use alternate methods works for him. I feel like if [...]
Here’s some humor related to an e-mail attachment didn’t come through–not that receiving threatening e-mails is funny because it isn’t. It is a rather serious matter that should be handled via the proper authorities.
I doubt I’ll ever be able to get rid of those 50 invites I have.
I felt okay about the 100+ e-mail messages I receive daily until I read Stever Robbins’ estimate that it takes 3 minutes to deal with each message, which amounts to 5 hours of e-mail management a day. Wow. No wonder I can’t get anything done!
Robbins shares a number of valuable tips, like how to summarize [...]
Rebecca’s having a contest for the best Valentine’s Day sonnet about blogging and the holiday. The prize: a Gmail invite.
Addendum: Rebecca has a few follow-up posts, including a sonnet from David Weinberger. More are on Weblogs at Harvard Law blog. It’s so nice to see new content on that site. It’s especially appropriate since it’s [...]
beSpacific reports the Texas attorney general is suing a major spammer.